Mary Wesley Quotes
My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I don't care about revenues.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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I think I'm going to be around awhile.
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I think a lot of times people who jump from one movie to another don't enjoy their private life. It's a great way to escape reality. But I enjoy my life.
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It's going to be labor-intensive and time-consuming, but you need to take all the books down and put them on the floor. Take them down and spread them in one area. Physically pick each book up, one by one. If the book inspires you, keep it. If not, it goes out. That's the standard by which you decide.
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The people who voted for President Obama are just beginning to wake up to exactly what they brought in. The 'change' they envisioned is not the 'change' they have gotten.
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I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.
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I know if it was the Time 99, I would've been off the list.
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My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.
